25/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - Ashton-Abbas meeting. After meeting the president of the European Council on 23 October, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, met High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton on 24 October. Ashton stressed the EU's full support for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that are under way “which should lead to a two-state solution, with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous,...